In the new The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer, if you look closely at the scene where Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Thing lifts a car over his head, you will see there are stacks of comic books in the foreground. This is a great deep cut Easter egg, because back in the Silver Age, when the Fantastic Four were first created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. In their Fantastic Four comics, the FF were celebrities, and the subjects of their very own comics. (Sometimes, the characters would even complain about how Stan and Jack’s comics portrayed them.) It was all very meta, and very ahead of its time.
And that’s just one of the cool Marvel references, little details, and hidden Easter eggs you might have missed in the first full trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. In our latest FF video we’ll point out all of them, from the references to The Ed Sullivan Show to the shoutout to Timely Comics to the single most interesting shot in this trailer and what it tells us about Celestials, the multiverse, and the plot of Avengers: Doomsday.
Watch our full Fantastic Four trailer breakdown video below:
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If you liked that video breaking down all the Easter eggs in the first full Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer, check out more of our videos below, including one on The Fantastic Four: First Steps CinemaCon footage, one on Daredevil: Born Again Episode 7 and why the end of the Muse storyline was a huge mistake, and one on why Spider-Man isn’t among the announced cast of Avengers: Doomsday. Plus, there’s tons more videos over at ScreenCrush’s YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe to catch all our future episodes. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is scheduled to open in theaters on July 25.
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